Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Jeff Law
On 09/16/2015 11:15 AM, Trevor Saunders wrote: ANd it's not just the kids. As an "old fart" who has used a variety of mechanisms to manage GCC sources through the decades (including some that were never officially used), GIT wins hands-down. and its not just for people who send patches upstrea

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Jeff Law
On 09/16/2015 10:54 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: On 16 September 2015 at 18:32, Jonathan Wakely wrote: On 16 September 2015 at 17:20, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: My impression is that right now one can develop GCC with GIT or SVN (people are submitting GIT patches all the time). After the con

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Trevor Saunders
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:48:13AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote: > On 09/16/2015 10:32 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > >On 16 September 2015 at 17:20, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > >>My impression is that right now one can develop GCC with GIT or SVN (people > >>are submitting GIT patches all the time). After

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 16 September 2015 at 18:48, Jeff Law wrote: >> Yes, I think so. "The kids" these days all want to use git, not svn. >> That's harder to do because you have to set up git *and* git-svn. > > Right. And I find that dealing with the mixture of git and git-svn to be a > real PITA. OK, I was not aw

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 16 September 2015 at 18:32, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 16 September 2015 at 17:20, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: >> My impression is that right now one can develop GCC with GIT or SVN (people >> are submitting GIT patches all the time). After the conversion, only GIT >> will be possible. Does thi

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Jeff Law
On 09/16/2015 10:32 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: On 16 September 2015 at 17:20, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: My impression is that right now one can develop GCC with GIT or SVN (people are submitting GIT patches all the time). After the conversion, only GIT will be possible. Does this actually lower

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 16 September 2015 at 17:20, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > My impression is that right now one can develop GCC with GIT or SVN (people > are submitting GIT patches all the time). After the conversion, only GIT > will be possible. Does this actually lower the entry barrier and will > attract contri

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 16/09/15 17:49, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote: On Sep 16, 2015,@4:38 AM, Richard Biener wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2015@7:09 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: ... Unlike Subversion branch deletion, Git branch deletion is permanent, so this might not be the best option. We could have a 2nd git reposit

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Joseph Myers
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote: > > > On Sep 16, 2015, at 4:38 AM, Richard Biener > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> ... > >> Unlike Subversion branch deletion, Git branch deletion is permanent, > >> so this might not be the best op

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Paul_Koning
> On Sep 16, 2015, at 4:38 AM, Richard Biener > wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> ... >> Unlike Subversion branch deletion, Git branch deletion is permanent, >> so this might not be the best option. > > We could have a 2nd git repository just containing dele

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Richard Biener
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Jason Merrill: > >> There are lots of ancient branches and tags in the SVN repository that >> are no longer interesting, and it would be nice not to have them >> cluttering up the lists and default fetch set. > > Just one minor comment: Du

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-16 Thread Richard Biener
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Jason Merrill: > >> There are lots of ancient branches and tags in the SVN repository that >> are no longer interesting, and it would be nice not to have them >> cluttering up the lists and default fetch set. > > Just one minor comment: Du

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jason Merrill: > There are lots of ancient branches and tags in the SVN repository that > are no longer interesting, and it would be nice not to have them > cluttering up the lists and default fetch set. Just one minor comment: Due to the way Git branches work, this decision can be deferred to

Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

2015-09-15 Thread Joseph Myers
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Jason Merrill wrote: > There are lots of ancient branches and tags in the SVN repository that are no > longer interesting, and it would be nice not to have them cluttering up the > lists and default fetch set. > > The options I see for each branch or tag are: > 1) Keep them a